I think you have two pictures combined in one. Crop the big piece of wood at the bottom out of the picture and what remains is very nice. Now look at what you cropped out. That too makes an interesting picture.

I have a question Walter....I love these kinds of photos. How do you get all that detail from your feet to infinity? Is it a setting or a position your in or what?

Click to expand...

Well, in this case, it was a cheap digital camera that has a 'landscape' mode. Most certainly this mode just does what a photographer would do shooting landscapes with a real camera instead of a toy, which is choose settings and a lens that gives a large 'depth of field':

1. Use a relatively wide lens. 28mm equivalent in the case of this photo.
2. Use a small aperture. Most people use f/11 or f/16 or more on landscapes.
3. Set focus at the 'hyperfocal distance' instead of infinity. Look up hyperfocal distance in a photography book or on google - basically it's the point you can focus on at which the farthest point in focus will be at "infinity" but the nearest point that's in focus will be closer than it would be were you focused on infinity. Hyperfocal distance depends on aperture and focal length, because it relates to the size of your depth of field. To rephrase, you focus on something a bit closer than infinity but still have infinity in focus, and in return your nearest focus is even closer than it would be otherwise.